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Re: Schlegel diagram

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  • Subject: [mg73015] Re: Schlegel diagram
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:15:34 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: The University of Western Australia
  • References: <ephd6p$rvo$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <ephd6p$rvo$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 "King, Peter R" <peter.king at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have looked through the manual for this & may be missed it as it may
> be described as something else. Is there a way to plot the Schlegel diagram
> of a polyhedron? (A Schlegel diagram is the 2D graph of edges and vertices).
> I can draw 3D wireframes, projections etc, none of which are what I want.
> I can extract vertex coordinates and so (I suppose) write something to do
>  this for me but if anyone out there knows an easy way I would be most 
>  grateful.

Perhaps

  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolyhedralGraph.html

is useful to you? There is also a Notebook available for download from 
this page. 

Also George W. Hart <george at georgehart.com> uses Mathematica and is the 
author of a number of papers (and code) that may be of use to you, e.g.

  http://www.georgehart.com/solid-edge/solid-edge.html

Cheers,
Paul

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